Extradition efforts continue over Coventry boy’s road death

An MP has said efforts continue to extradite a Latvian man suspected of killing a 12-year-old boy in Coventry with his car.

Keaton Slater died after being hit by a black BMW in Coventry on 14 June last year.

Police believe Dolars Aleksanders, 21, who is wanted on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, is in Latvia.

Taiwo Owatemi, the MP for Coventry North West, is keeping the family updated and said: “They deserve to have closure and they deserve to have justice for Keaton.”

Ms Owatemi has previously asked for Mr Aleksanders to be extradited and said the Crown Prosecution Service was working with the Latvian authorities to pursue criminal proceedings in Latvia.

She said talks were also taking place between British and Latvian politicians with the aim of making changes to the extradition agreements between the two nations.

But she said that was at the “early stages” and would require a vote in Latvia.

Keaton’s parents, Louise and Clint Slater, have been campaigning to have Mr Aleksanders extradited ever since he was named by police as a person of interest shortly after the crash last summer.

Their petition calling for him to return to the UK has received tens of thousands of signatures.

Ms Owatemi said: “It’s so important that the family gets justice.

“As a mum I can’t really imagine what they are going through.”